Xiangbo reef, unit 54, Longlin County (Permian of China)

Also known as Reef 224

Where: Guangxi, China (24.9° N, 105.2° E: paleocoordinates 0.1° N, 97.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Wujiaping Formation, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• Unit 54, Changxing Formation (Rigby 1994); Upper Wujiaping or Lower Changxing Formation (Rigby 1989); Codonofusiella zone.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified framestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. K. Rigby, J. Fan, and W. Zhang. 1989. Sphinctozoan sponges from the Permian reefs of South China. Journal of Paleontology 63(4):404-439 [W. Kiessling/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 47449: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 25.02.2005, edited by Uta Merkel

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Taxonomic list

Disjectoporidae
  - Disjectoporidae
Radiotrabeculopora maokoui1 Fan et al. 1991
Demospongiae
 Verticillitida - Colospongiidae
? Subascosymplegma paracatenulata Rigby et al. 1989 demosponge
 Agelasida - Sebargasiidae
"Stromatocoelia asiatica" = Polycystocoelia asiatica Zhang and Fan 1985 demosponge
Polycystocoelia huajiaopingensis Zhang 1983 demosponge
 Agelasida - Virgolidae
"Intratubospongia typica n. gen. n. sp." = Intratubospongia osiensis2
"Intratubospongia typica n. gen. n. sp." = Intratubospongia osiensis2 de Gregorio 1930 demosponge
 Agelasida - Solenolmiidae
Preverticillites columnella3 Parona 1933 demosponge
 Agelasida - Guadalupiidae
"Lichuanospongia typica" = Cystauletes typica
"Lichuanospongia typica" = Cystauletes typica Zhang 1983 demosponge
Calcarea
 Calcaronea - Endostomatidae
"Corynella sp." = Endostoma2
"Corynella sp." = Endostoma2 Roemer 1864 calcareous sponge